NP if you are an expert on these cars who has facilities and expertise and cheap parts, though such a person might want it more as a parts car.   Or maybe if you are similarly equipped with skills and facilities and you fancy building a hotrod or a track car on this basis.  Only such folk should even consider it... as…

I think that our heroes on Next [da-da-da-DUM} The F.B. I... In Color mostly used the Custom 500. Along with an even lower trim called simply the Custom, it was a fleet and frugal-civilian version of the full size car more familiar as the Galaxie 500 or (in its all-the-buttons trim) Galaxie 500 LTD.

A kinda neat old car seemingly in attractive condition, but at eleven grand, presumably unrestored or an older restoration, at a very modest trim, I’m not surprising the ad expired with the car unsold. (They’re giving it another try at the same price:…

A well presented example of the timelessly appealing athlete-in-a-bespoke-suit genre of automobile at an accessible price. But it’s a supposed “private party sale” with a phone number that belongs to a body shop. Discovering that made my spidey sense tingle...

the gear lever on RHD cars such as this sprouting from the floor on the right side of the driver’s seat. That require a bit of gymnastics to step over when entering or exiting the car.

Who needs CDs? I’m sure at least one radio button is set to KDGR — Over 65 On Your AM Dial, where it’s all Frankie, Dino, and Sammy, all day, all night.

There is also the case of Jodie Edwards.

Nice cars whose futuristic styling has held up well inside and out now that the actual future is here, but I’m guessing that the asking price is driven by what he needs to pay off the loan rather than by market research.

Park should be where hundreds of millions of us have expected it to be all our lives: at the left or forward extreme of the realm of possibilities. Getting into it is important to prevent runaways. Change this at everyone’s peril.

If you want one, this might be the one you want, but $12k is ‘way past how badly I want one.

Crowing about one’s intent to sue always carries a whiff of the cattle substance—all the more so when the legal basis is so, erm, speculative. If you are actually going to sue, you have your lawyers assemble a good case, and then just file.

As a business proposition for a gimmick limo, well, a cosplay wedding where the groom has a Brylcreem-laden DA haircut and wears a white T-shirt with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve probably doesn’t come up just any day, and prom season is short.

Is this instant karma for a bad motorist?

Yeah, if you want one there can’t be that many to choose from anymore (US sales were something like 40,000 over several model years, and I’m sure time and chance have happened to many of them). This one is priced between a Fair and a Good in the tough Hagerty grading scheme. NP for the right enthusiast though…

Okay if not exactly giveaway price for mileage and condition for someone who knows what they’re getting into. Those who just think they know what they’re getting into should contemplate that engine-bay picture and imagine getting into anything that isn’t right on top. And if those low miles reflect long years of…

I’m not going to trust a long term owner that doesn’t detail the changes in the ad.

“I wish I was a stingray”

One of the kids and his wife have a CX9 of that vintage, in a nice trim. I’ve driven it both around town and on the open road. They know we want first crack at it, high book, cash, should they ever decide they need something else. I don’t think I’m getting it anytime soon.

Got to admit, an underhood “cold” air intake and aftermarket LED headlights with halos don’t boost my confidence, but the body suggests that if he either tracks or street-races the car, at least he’s good in the chair.

Every used car is for sale because somebody thinks he would be better off with the money than with the car. The buyer’s job is to figure out why.